Word: abbe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Abbé Lorent's story clearly exemplifies what had been in the mind of most Frenchmen in recent years. Like Abbé Lorent, they had hoped they would be able to collaborate with Communists in the national task of putting France on her feet again, only to realize gradually that every effort to get along with them was doomed to failure...
...Abbé's story, however, TIME omitted to mention that the Communist strikers who attempted to storm the priest's house had with them a large number of German P.W.s currently working in the coal pits. Other P.W.s had been enrolled by the comrades, and picketed the entrances to the pits in many parts of the coal-mines district...
...take action. He collected a group of miners, wrapped a tricolor sash around his waist, and advanced on the pit heads. They were met by hundreds of Communists and hangers-on (only a few of them local people) who had armed themselves with clubs. After a short scuffle the Abbé Lorent's forces withdrew. "I wanted to avoid bloodshed," he said...
...Reds were angry. They marched on the Abbé's house, invaded his scuffed and untidy front yard. In the kitchen the Abbé had a group of faithful adherents armed with machine guns...
...week's end tension was slackening in Sains, as it was elsewhere in France, but the mines of Sains we're still closed and the Abbé was still on guard. "This calm bodes evil," he said. "I don't trust it. I'm not afraid and the town knows that. Those who do not follow me as a priest respect me as the mayor...